It’s still a work in progress but it’ll be amazing when my roses, tomatoes, blueberries, and cucumbers start flowering and fruiting in June. My cilantro went into overdrive and I have coriander seeds for cooking now.
Yes, that's my cockatiel hanging out on the table
Pretty bird!
Artsy kind of shot, I have a mirror mounted on the fence to reflect a bit more light
Yellow shrub daisy!
Why haven’t any of the major chains thought about doing this? I suppose the cost to add extra perforations to the box isn’t worth corporate’s time but I wouldn’t mind paying a couple quarters extra for encouraging better use of resources.
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I gave him away today. Had him since November to keep Sam company, but over the past few weeks we reached a breaking point. Budgies are extremely hyperactive and very social and his craziness was too much for the cockatiels to take. They attempted to ignore him, but Nugget would get frustrated and start pulling feathers and biting their feet. When he started drawing blood…I posted an ad on craigslist to find him a new home. Found him one, with a nice hispanic couple who have over a dozen other birds. I think he’ll be much happier as part of a flock. Going to miss the little guy.
Since I was in Round Rock anyways to drop him off, I stopped at IKEA. Bought some casserole dishes, shakers, grease splatter shield, lingonberry preserves, and a 2.5lb bag of frozen Swedish meatballs.
Yes, those meatballs are one of my guilty pleasures. At first I thought having an restaurant in IKEA was insanity, but they have some pretty decent food for cheap. This is how they serve the meatball platter, sometimes with a mini Swedish flag stuck in the potatoes:
I was tempted to buy a lot more crap I don’t need, but thought better of it this trip. Maybe next time when I have a nice juicy paycheck in the bank.
Catchy song, I like! His album isn’t coming out until later this year though but the sample clips are decent.
I went to World Market to get some Tim Tams for an acquaintance and for myself to pig on. Except I kind of went overboard and scoured every aisle in the store. It’s one of my favorite places to shop because they have such a wonderful collection of unique imported items you can’t find elsewhere.
Picked up a black potted fake bamboo plant, a oil torch candle for the patio, a teapot shaped tea infuser, and a vanity shelf. When I went to checkout, the cashier eyed my 6 boxes of Tim Tams (I had cleared the shelf) and went “Cookie binge?”. Wallet is crying, I’ve blown my entire shopping budget for the month only 11 days in which means no more spending. I guess it’ll force me to stop eating out and clear out the food in the cabinets and freezer.
I found a cappuccino maker (Bialetti Mukka Express Cappuccino Maker) sitting on a bottom clearance shelf. I picked it up, balked at the $44 price tag for what is essentially a glorified kettle, then remembered reading about it on an espresso blog which gave rave reviews for it. Also remembered that it retails for $90 and used that fact to justify a purchase. Decided to indulge myself and threw it in the basket, then picked up some amazing smelling espresso beans as well. I have a french bodum press, espresso machine with a frother, a Senseo pod machine, and a Vietnamese coffee filter. Of all those, only the latter makes a nice strong aromatic brew but is only suited for iced coffee. Now that I have the Bialetti I can stop wasting more money on coffee paraphanelia and sell the other crap on Craigslist.
It took a few attempts to get right. The manual that came with it was in Italian so I had to google instructions. Apparently not following them down to a T involves messy explosions. After I’d cleaned everything up from failed tries, I found the English instructional DVD at the bottom of the box -_-
Attempts
